Three Chinese Charged with Shooting Merchant "The attempted murder committed on Monday afternoon in Avenue (Edward VII when a Chinese mer-
Sir John Haslam, Conservative member for Bolton, asked Mr. Butler yesterday whether he was aware that exporters of soya beans from Manchuria had to pay fourteen pence per yen to the Japanese authorities to Secure exchange and that a Japanese Mitsui combine sold exchange at a much lower rate.
He also asked the Under-Secretary whether he would direct the attention of the Japanese Government to this discrepancy.
Mr, Butler replied that he had had no report on the subject but would make enquiries.
When asked by Sir John Haslam whether he knew that the Japanese authorities in Tsingtao had placed an embargo on the export of cotton yarns, Mr. Butler answered that an embargo on the export of cotton, not specifically cotton yarn, from Tientsin had been promulgated on December 6 and that the matter was now under consideration—Reuter.
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